We are not in this together. We are not the first.
We are observed. We are one! We are seven. We are still married. We are strong. We are talking about homes. We are ten. We are the children. We are the earthquake generation.

We are the fire. We are the little foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. We are the world. We are Thy children. We are your sisters. We are your sons.

III
We can! We can begin again together. We can defend America.
We can do business with Russia. We can have better marriages if we really want them. We can have better schools.
We can still hear them clapping.

We can teach you to play hockey.
We can win this war.
We cannot live without our lives.
We can't all be heroes, you know. We can't breathe.
We can't let 'em fight with bare hands.

We caught spies. We charge genocide.
We Chinese women. We chose Cape Cod. We chose the islands. We chose to stay.
We come from the sea. We come to the river. We count in 1950.

We dared the Andes. We defended Normandy.
We Dickinsons.
We didn't ask Utopia. We didn't have much, but we sure had plenty. We didn't have none of them fat funky angels in the wall of Heartbreak Hotel.
We didn't mean to go to sea.

IVWe die alone. We die at dawn. We die before we live.
We die standing up.

VIII.
We have always lived in the castle. We have been friends together. We have been invaded by the 21st century. We have been there. We have come a long way.

We have come for your daughters.

We have eaten the forest.

We have given our hearts away.

IX.
We have just received the following important intelligence.... We have long since indeed lost the right names of things from amongst us. We have met the enemy. We have met the enemy, and they are partly right. We have overcome. We have recovered before! We have taken a city. We have this ministry. We have this moment received the following great and important intelligence from Capt. Stephen Lowater...

We saw her.We saw him act. We saw him die.
We saw it through.
We saw South America.

We saw the sea.

This collection of alphabetical titles was inspired by a similar example of found poetry I came across in News That Stayed News: Ten Years of CoEvolution Quarterly. Alas, I can't remember the was who submitted it-- although David Bunn is known for this type of work, the CoEQ version would have been published in the late 1970s or early 1980s, before Bunn's appropriation of the Los Angeles Central Library's card catalog.